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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone? [/quote]

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?[/quote]

Believe it or not, the vast majority of liberal-leaning professors don't make blatantly partisan political statements, don't denigrate individual politicians, and don't push radical views about government. It's not germane to the material.

In my experience, most conservatives get triggered by liberal-leaning professors when the class begins the economic or historical analysis of economic and political decisions made by leaders/parties. But, at that point, you're examining historical records and the record is very poor for conservative leaders. Sad.[/quote]
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[b]Or they made blatantly partisan political statements that you wholeheartedly agreed with so didn't even notice?[/b][/b][/quote]

This. This is the most likely scenario right here.

Not only do people no longer hear bias when people they agree with are speaking, but often times they seem not to even realize when the two sides have held the same positions/policies. Lately, the liberals are "newly woke" on things and are ignorantly oblivious that these policies are not new. At all. I had a convo with someone yesterday who referenced "Trump's kids in cages" and I nodded and said something along the lines of it being a terrible situation, no matter which administration was doing it. It was bad when Obama was president...and it is bad now. He was flabbergasted that I would suggest these things happened "on Obama's watch." In total denial and disbelief. I had to pull up the 2014 photos to show him the evidence. And then he mentioned "well anyone who wants to come here and give their kids a better life should be able to." I pointed out that this is a very compassionate-sounding view, but it's also contrary to our country's immigration laws and sovereignty as a nation to suggest that we just open up the borders to whomever crosses. And he said "well that's why I'm a democrat. I support open borders. Especially for children. Trump just doesn't like minorities. That's why he wants to close the border, even to children!"

So I played the video of Obama imploring families "Do NOT send your children to the border. If they do make it, they will get sent back." Again, he was in disbelief that Obama would have said that, as he is fully convinced that Democrats have always been for open borders.

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